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Fuma Monou
, also written Fuuma Monou, is a fictional character created by the artists Clamp introduced in their manga series '' X''. Fuma appears to be an ordinary, young teenager who is friends with protagonist Kamui Shiro. However, his frequent encounters with Kamui and Kamui's divine power has made him develop a cold-blooded alter-ego, who joins the Dragons of Earth to eliminate mankind, preserve the Earth and kill Kamui's own group, the Dragons of Heaven. Fuma also appears in an animated film and television series based on the manga, both of which have a different outcome because Clamp did not finish the ''X'' manga. An alternative version of the character has appeared in the Clamp's manga, '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', as a rival of another Kamui. Clamp writer Nanase Ohkawa created Fuma knowing his fate as the Kamui of the Dragons of Earth, and her friends looked forward to the characterization. Fuma's design changed, because he was too similar to Kamui. The team found Fuma one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X (manga)
''X'', also known as ''X/1999'', is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, a creative team made up of Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Mokona. It premiered in Kadokawa Shoten's ''Monthly Asuka'' ''shōjo'' manga magazine in May 1992 and ran there until it went on hiatus in March 2003; it has yet to be concluded. The story takes place at the end of days in the year 1999. The series follows Kamui Shiro, a young esper who returns home to Tokyo after a six-year absence to face his destiny as the one who will determine humanity's fate. Kadokawa Shoten collected and published the individual chapters in 18 ''tankōbon'' volumes, with five chapters published in the book ''All about Clamp''. All but several final chapters have been published. It has been adapted into a series of audio dramas. It was followed by a 1996 anime feature film by Rintaro assisted by Ohkawa in studio Madhouse. The same studio, now led by director and writer Yoshiaki Kawajiri, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rintaro
is the pseudonym of , a well-known director of anime. He works frequently with the animation studio Madhouse (company), Madhouse (which he co-founded), though he is a freelance director not employed directly by any one studio. He began working in the animation industry—at age 17—as an in-between animator on the 1958 film ''Hakujaden''. His works have won and been nominated for multiple awards, including a nomination for Best Film (''Metropolis (2001 film), Metropolis'') at the 2001 Festival de Cine de Sitges. Rintaro is a fan of science fiction, and has been influenced by American Western (genre), westerns, gangster films, film noir, and French films. Additionally, he was influenced by Osamu Tezuka, and worked with him on ''Kimba the White Lion'' and ''Astro Boy''. He said that when he was making ''Metropolis (2001 film), Metropolis'', which was based on Tezuka's manga of the same name, he "wanted to communicate Tezuka's spirit". Rintaro personally introduced the film at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X (1996 Film)
''X'', also known as ''X/1999'' and ''X: The Movie'', is a 1996 Japanese anime film directed by Rintaro and animated by Madhouse. Rintaro wrote it alongside Clamp head writer Nanase Ohkawa. It is based on Clamp's manga of the same name. It premiered August 3, 1996, in Japan and had a limited screening in North America during 2000. The supernatural thriller focuses on the roles Kamui Shiro, Kotori Monou, and Fuma Monou play in the Apocalypse. After his mother's death, the young Kamui returns to Tokyo to participate in a Holy War between two groups that will either protect mankind or protect nature at the cost of mankind. Rintaro was approached by Kadokawa Shoten to direct this movie and found this part of his career unique due to how he work with Ohkawa, Clamp's head writer, while also aiming to show a self-contained story with a style and atmosphere that might be rejected by the viewers. The film's theme song is " Forever Love" by X Japan. The film was released in both VH ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir Chronicle Characters
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. In other contexts, "reservoirs" may refer to storage spaces for various fluids; they may hold liquids or gasses, including hydrocarbons. ''Tank reservoirs'' store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are also called cisterns. Most underground reservoirs are used to store liquids, principally either water or petroleum. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley, and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Kikuchi
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer affiliated with BLACK SHIP. Biography In 2000, Mika made her stage debut as Janet in the Japanese version of the musical Annie. She also had small roles in Suicide Circle and Battle Royale II: Requiem before landing the role of ''Koume "Umeko" Koudo''/''DekaPink'' in 2004's iteration of the Super Sentai franchise, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. Mika then diversified into voice acting in 2005, voicing the character ''Mokona'' in the anime Tsubasa Chronicle and xxxHoLiC, based on Clamp's popular manga. She has also presented a children's variety show Nyanchuu World on the NHK channel, as well as net radio work for Tsubasa Chronicle (with fellow voice actress Yui Makino) and Mai Otome (with Ami Koshimizu), the popular anime in which she plays the lead character '' Arika Yumemiya''. On December 16, 2009, her birthday, she married actor Yūji Kishi, who is 13 years her senior. They met during the 2007 Japanese stage tour of ''Les Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Video Animation
, abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA series may be broadcast for promotional purposes. OVA titles were originally made available on VHS, later becoming more popular on LaserDisc and eventually DVD. Starting in 2008, the term OAD (original animation DVD) began to refer to DVD releases published bundled with their source-material manga. Format Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are sub-divided into episodes. OVA media (tapes, laserdiscs or DVDs) usually contain just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title: each episode may run from a few minutes to two hours or more. An episode length of 30 minutes occurs quite commonly, but no standard length exists. In some cases, the length of episodes in a specific OVA may vary greatly, for example in '' Gao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funimation Entertainment
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of East Asian media, with a long history of working with Japanese anime. The company was founded in May 1994 as Funimation Productions by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy Brennan in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills, later to Flower Mound, Texas, and after that in Coppell, Texas. Funimation was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It licensed popular series, such as ''Dragon Ball'', ''One Piece'', ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', ''My Hero Academia'', ''Attack on Titan'', ''Fairy Tail'', '' Black Clover'', ''Fruits Basket'', '' Assassination Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Suzumura
is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer who is affiliated with and a representative of INTENTION, a voice acting company he founded in March 2012. He voiced Morley in ''Macross 7'', Hikaru Hitachiin in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Masato Hijirikawa in ''Uta no Prince-sama'', Kyoichi Kanzaki in BOYS BE, Rakushun in The Twelve Kingdoms, Shiki Tohno in ''Tsukihime'', Tsubaki Asahina in ''Brothers Conflict'', Atsushi Murasakibara in ''Kuroko's Basketball'', Momotaro Mikoshiba in '' Free!'', Shinn Asuka in ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'', Leo Stenbuck in '' Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner'', Sōgo Okita in ''Gin Tama'', Rogue Cheney in ''Fairy Tail'', Lavi in '' D.Gray-man'', Obanai Iguro in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Ryutaros in '' Kamen Rider Den-O'' and Rakushun in The 12 Kingdoms . He is part of the group with Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke Kishio, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Makoto Yasumura, and Kohsuke Toriumi. His younger brother is stunt coordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satsuki Igarashi
is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. Her duties in the team are Nanase Ohkawa's sounding board, and the character designer of ''Chobits'' and line artist for '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle''. Like the other members of Clamp, she changed her name as part of the group's 15th Anniversary, however, for her it was only in the Japanese name from to . Her cousin is fellow manga artist, Yumiko Igarashi is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for illustrating the manga series ''Candy Candy''. Career In 1968, as a third-year high school student at the Asahi Gaoka High School in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Igarashi made her debut in Shueisha's ''Ri .... According to Clamp's '' The One I Love'', Satsuki was bullied as a child in kindergarten by a group of boys. However, there was one boy who always stood up for her, and Satsuki developed a crush on him. References External links * Solomon, Charles"Four Mothers of Manga Gain American Fans With Expertise in a Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokona
is the pen name of the lead artist, colorist, and composition designer of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She was formerly known as ; she dropped her last name because it sounded too "immature". Clamp has had a huge impact on the "manga explosion" according to an account in ''The New York Times'' in 2006. Their artwork has been characterized as "wispy", "fluid" and "dramatic" which has resonated with both male and female demographic readers of manga. The ''Tsubasa'' manga sold more than a million copies in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ..., and television programs based on the concept have been successful as well as DVD spinoffs. References External links * * Living people Clamp (manga artists) 1968 births Japanese women arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seishiro Sakurazuka
is a fictional character that was created by Clamp and first appeared in the manga ''Tokyo Babylon''. He appears as a kind veterinarian who shows romantic affection for the young exorcist (referred as ''onmyōji'') Subaru Sumeragi. During the story, it is revealed he is the , Japan's number-one assassin who is targeting Subaru. The character returns in the apocalyptic manga '' X'' as a combatant in the battle of Armageddon, a Dragon of Earth and Subaru's rival. An alternative version of Seishiro appears in Clamp's crossover series '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' as a young treasure hunter who is searching for two vampires, one of whom is an alternative version of Subaru. Seishiro was created alongside Subaru and his twin sister Hokuto as the main characters for a ''dōjinshi'' novel. After undergoing major changes, he was used as a main character in ''Tokyo Babylon''. Multiple actors voiced the character in animated adaptations of the manga. Since his introduction in ''Tok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subaru Sumeragi
is the fictional protagonist of Clamp's manga series ''Tokyo Babylon''. The head of the , Subaru is a young ''onmyōji'' in charge of exorcising demons and helping spirits reach the afterlife, while living with his twin sister Hokuto and love interest Seishiro Sakurazuka. Following the events of ''Tokyo Babylon'', an adult Subaru appears in the 1993 live-action film ''Tokyo Babylon 1999'' investigating a murder case. He becomes one of mankind's seven protectors in Clamp's series '' X'', and Seishiro is his new rival. Subaru's fate in the battle of the end of the world has differed across ''X''s multiple animated adaptations. An alternate version of the character appears in Clamp's crossover series, '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle''. Clamp writer Nanase Ohkawa first created Subaru as a mascot for a fancomic, ''dōjinshi'', about ''onmyōji''. Clamp found it difficult to engage a writer for Subaru because their authors were not used to writing kindhearted characters. For ''X'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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